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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the book of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus near the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the booke of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus neare the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Fifthly: In that Elihu was so Constrained and pressed in spirit, as wine which hath no vent, or as a woman with Child ready to travel.
Fifthly: In that Elihu was so Constrained and pressed in spirit, as wine which hath no vent, or as a woman with Child ready to travell.
Note.
It is a pain not to speak when we have much to utter, and much mind to utter it.
It is a paine not to speake when we have much to utter, and much minde to utter it.
When El•hu was full he had a Constraint upon him to vent his opinion. David saith (Psal: 39.1, 2, 3.) I held my peace, even from good words; (he did not only forbear idle and evil discourse, but refrained from good) but it was a trouble to him not to speak, especially not to speak good words; therefore he adds, My heart waxed hot within me. Jeremiah found it no easy work to keep in words; yea, he describes himself as much pained by not delivering his mind, as a woman is when not delivered in child-birth (Jer: 20.9.) Then said I, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, but his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay. There was wine, new wine in his belly, yea there was a fire within him; as we may be weary with speaking, so with not speaking, or forbearing to speak, (Jer: 4.19.) My bowels, my bowels, I am pained at the very heart, my heart maketh a noise in me, I cannot hold my peace. Read him in the like trouble upon the same occasion (Jer: 6.11.) Eliphaz (Chap: 4.2.) was thus pressed, Who can withhold himself from speaking? 'Tis a great pain, to be mind-bound, or not to deliver our mind, when our minds are full and we full of desire to deliver it.